Collected Poems 1969-2014
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Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
Penguin Modern Classics
240 pages, Rs. 399
Spanning four collections of poetry and two translations, this is the first comprehensive volume of the works of a hugely significant contemporary English poet. Mehrotra’s poetry is notable for its quiet command of the reader’s attention; the small details of everyday life are its currency. His work captures, as Amit Chaudhuri says in the book’s introduction, the uncanny and contingent experience of “being present in the world without explanation.”
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